Collar stiffener device



Feb. 16, 1932. 1 MARlNsKY 1,845,884

COLLAR STIFFENER DEVICE 'Filed July 6, 1931 Patented Feb. 16, 1932 UNITED STATES ISAAC IABINSIY, I' PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND COLLAR. BTIFFENEB DEVICE Application nea my e, mi. serial n. sans.

Myinvention relates to mens shirts and more particularly to the soft turn down shirt collars thereof either attached or detached and to stifening elements therefor.

The essential objects of my invention are to retain the collar ends or points in contact with the shirt front or bosom; to prevent wrinkling or curling of the collar points; to maintain the collar smooth and relatively stiff under all circumstances; to provide a locking stiflening element adapted to facile removal but safe from accidental escape, and thoroughly concealed from observation; and to attain these ends by simple, inexpensive, and easily operable means.

To the above ends essentially my invention consists in such parts and in such combinations o parts as fall within the scope of the. appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings which form a part of this specification.,

Figure 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a shirt of the attached collar type with one of the collar points turned up and its stiif ening strip member removed.

Figure 2, a section of' the same on line l'3-2 ef Figure ll,

ififgfure a fragmentary rear'view of a 'portion ot the shirt front disclosing the back of the pocket therein.

iiigure 4, a perspective view of the sti'ffener member taken from the front,

Figure 5, a section of a modified form ot' one ot' the shirt pockets taken on a line corresponding with line 2-2 of Figure 1, and

Figure 6, a fragmentary front elevation of a shirt. detachable shirt collar, and a stitl'ener element.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the views.

As herein illustrated 10 represents the front or bosom of an ordinary soft shirt, l1 the attached collar band, and 12 the flap of the soft or semi soft shirt collar 13. The flap is provided with points 15. A triangular strip 18 is bound to the under face of each point by lines of stitches 21 on the bottom and end edges of the collar or otherwise. The strip forms a triangular upwardly directed dfi pocket 22 having a horizontal mouth 23 at its to n the upper rtion of the shirt behind each point is a ownwardly directed pocket 26 extending from a point at or adjacent the collar band 11 to a horizontally disposed slit 28 in the shirt bosom forming the mouth of the pocket.

A convenient or preferred method of forming the pocket 26 1s to manually hold a vertically disposed strip of tape against the back of the shirt bosom, and centrally of the stri slit an opening 28 simultaneously through both the bosom 10 and the strip, and then sew the last mentioned parts together with button hole stitching 29 around the slit or opening. The length of tape is next folded together and upwardly directed forming `a back and a front wall 31 and 32 bound to each other at their sides and with the shirt front by stitches 35, and bound at their upper ends to the shirt by a line of stitching 38, and in this case, also by the collar band stitching 39. By virtue of the double walls 31 and 32 the portion 40 of the bosom 10 overlaying the Vterial, comprise each a substantially triangular head portion 43 and a shank portion 44. Each stifener member has its shank 44 and head 45 slidably inserted in one of the shirt pockets and one of the adjacent collar pockets respectively. The maximum width of the head portion 43 is greater than the width of the slit 28 and pocket 26.

The triangular form' of head accommodates itself in its triangular pocket and thus assists to keep the collar point transversely distepded at the portion most susceptible to distorsion or displacement. The slightly convex shape of the stiEener member tends to direct the point of the collar toward the shirt bosom rather than away from it. The flexible character of the member 42 facilitates the insertion and removal thereof from the pocket and assists to maintain a vertical tension upon the collar Hap or point.

In Figure 6 the binding 46 of the shirt collar is shown additionally to the shirt collar binding 47, as is common when separable rather than integral shirt collars are employed.

I do not desire to be understood as contining myself to the specific construction of the parts shown, and such changes or modiiications may be made in practice as fairlyfal1 within the scope of my lnvention as claimed.

` I claim -1. The combination of a shirt provided with a horizontal slit, aY turn down collar upon the shirt provided with a vertical pocket in the turn down part of the collar, and a stiii'ener strip member seated in the pocket, and extending through the slit.

2. The combination of a shirt provided with a pocket, a turn down collar carried by the shirt overlapping the pocket and provided With a pocket in its turn down part, and a stiiiener strip member in the pockets.

3. The combination of a shirt provided With a pocket, a collar upon the shirt including a turn down part overlapping the pocket and provided with a pocket below the first pocket and a resilient stilfener strip member seated in the pockets.

4. The combination of a shirt provided with a pocket, a turn down collar carried by the shirt including a point in its turn down part and provided with a pocket in said turned down part in vertical alignment with the iirst pocket, and a detachable flexible stiffener strip member comprising a shank in the first pocket and a head in the second pocket.

5. The combination of a shirt provided with a horizontally disposed slit, a turn down collar upon the shirt having its turn down part overlapping the slit and provided with a vertical pocket in the turn down part, and

i a detachable stiiener strip member comprising a head in the pocket of greater maximum Width than the slit, and a shank extending through the slit.

6. The combination of a shirt provided with a pocket, a turn down collar upon the shirt overlapping the pocket and provided in its turn down part with a pocket below the lirst pocket and in vertical alignment there- With, and a flexible convexo concave stiffener strip member in the pockets.

7. The combination of a shirt provided with a horizontally disposed pocket slit, vertically disposed pocket Walls xed tothe shirt and registering with the slit, a turn down colsignature.

ISAAC MARINSKY. 

